Florida Republicans Reject Rick Scott's Medicaid Conversion

When Florida Gov. Rick Scott buckled and said he'd support Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, I urged caution because the GOP-run state legislature would get a say on this. It could always reject the expansion "and make Scott seem—for the first time in recorded history—like a centrist" as he faces a 2014 re-election campaign.

With a straight party-line vote on Monday, the House Select Committee on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act voted against expanding Medicaid... Republicans hold a majority of seats on the committee and the final vote was 10-5 in favor of Rep. Matt Hudson’s motion to direct staff not to write any legislation that would implement Medicaid expansion.